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Reeling From All These Wheelings (Part 1)

Christina Fisanick
March 17, 2018
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The settling of Wheeling, W.Va. (then Virginia), by the Zane family is a story common to most locals. In 1795, white settler Ebenezer Zane changed the name of the area he had claimed through tomahawk rights fro...

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